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package org.onosproject.bgpmonitoring;

import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import org.onlab.packet.bmp.Bmp;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity providing BMP Message Reader.
 */
public interface BmpMessageReader<T> {

    /**
     * Reads the Objects in the BMP Message and Returns BMP Message.
     *
     * @param cb        Channel Buffer
     * @param bmpHeader BMP message header
     * @return BMP Message
     * @throws BmpParseException on while parsing BMP message.
     */
    T readFrom(ChannelBuffer cb, Bmp bmpHeader) throws BmpParseException;
}
